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Sparse Multifrontal Solver for Solving Large-scale Structural Equations Chen Yingshi1 , Wu Wenyong1 , Huang
Zhenkang1 , Tong Huibo1 ,Jiao Ke2 (1 Shenzhen Camicro Software Co .
, Ltd .
, Shenzhen 518028 , China ;2 The Architectural
Design and Research Institute of Guangdong Province , Guangzhou 510010 , China)
Abstract:
A sparse multifrontal method for solving large-scale structural equations is presented .The operations in frontal
matrix are based on BLAS .The memory requirement of multifrontal method is less than band solvers and frontal solvers .It has
more potential for parallelism .A robust algorithm is presented to deal with the ill-matrix .The efficiency is illustrated by some
large-scale real buildings .This method is implemented in the GSSAP commercial software .
Keywords :
structural equations ;sparse matrix ;multifrontal method

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